HAHAHAHAHAHAH

So much this. I spent my first 5 years after college at once place and in that time made about 7% more than when I started.
I got sick of it and quit to do freelance for 2 years.
Freelance work dried up so I found a new job and their offer was more than 30% over my old salary. It would have taken me 15 years minimum to reach this salary had I stayed at the old job.

It's a two-way street you can take advantage of. If they show they don't provide the proper value for your time, you can start providing less value and they usually won't notice. This means you can take more days off, you can show up late more often, and leave early more often. Most either don't notice or don't have the balls to confront you, assuming you are confident enough.

whenever people say they doubled/tripled their salary i assume they started at minimum wage

I've gone from 50k to 75k with 2 job hops in one year. Software though so that's expected, and I'm relatively inexperienced on paper but I also kick ass.

you only end up wasting your own time this way

I've been with a software company for 8 years, and have gotten a raise every year.

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This. Software devs are too valuable.